MCLEANSBORO – The Hamilton County Collaboration, along with other businesses, will be lighting McLeansboro blue in honor of Child Abuse Prevention Month that starts Monday.

This event will begin at 5 p.m. Monday at the Hamilton County Courthouse in McLeansboro.

McLeansboro Mayor Dick Deitz will open the event with a few words followed by the reading of the state proclamation by Hamilton Memorial Hospital CEO Victoria Woodrow. Prevent Child Abuse Illinois’ Brittney Hale will speak on the importance of Child Abuse Prevention.

The event will end by turning on the square lights that will illuminate blue.